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Still, so many of the technologies that promote interactivity don't fulfill that promise. When I attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this January, Compaq gave each delegate a free iPaq pocket computer. I sat with a friend and marveled at the gizmo. Then we sent each other e-mails. Hey! Of course, we were sitting side by side (at an indescribably dull panel on Asian economies). Pointless communication, yes, but isn't that what we do nowadays? Think how commonly we send e-mails to colleagues at work who might be as near...
...cover just the social studies and the humanities, he figured he needed to buy the rights to 50,000 books and to digitize them. It took 10 months to find his first investor, Compaq co-founder Rod Canion, who put in $5 million of the initial $45 million raised in 1999. Questia has signed 200 publishers to date and offers 40,000 books and 4,000 journal articles. The digitization process involved shipping the books--including tomes by George Washington from 1750--to the Philippines, where 6,000 workers ripped them up for scanning...
...Confronted Tuesday morning by bummer earnings news from JDS Uniphase, AT&T and Compaq, and a plummeting consumer confidence report - 109.2 in April, well below the anticipated 113 - Wall Street shrugged...
Ground zero for ranch mania is the hill country. Since 1994, the rugged, picturesque hills west of Austin and San Antonio have been Texas' hottest destination for retirees and investors alike--in large part because of its temperate climate. Tech millionaires from Dell, Compaq and Microsoft, tobacco-settlement lawyers, oil- and gasmen (back in the money, thanks to the California energy crisis) have all snapped up parcels from 50 acres to 100 acres, replacing ranch houses with mansions, throwing up 10-ft.-high fences to corral herds of exotic animals--and changing a way of life forever. There are traffic...
...Rust Belt dinosaur or a business-plan-and-a-prayer dotcom. Its workers helped write one of the great business success stories of modern times. Dell was founded in 1984 to sell computers without a middleman (Direct from Dell, the ads said). Its hyperefficient model helped it pass Compaq to become North America's largest PC manufacturer. Nor is Dell's good news all behind it. Just last Thursday, Dell almost single-handedly ran the Dow up 400 points when it confirmed that first-quarter profit estimates were on track. Last year the company earned $2.3 billion on sales...